prenasaln.adj.
/priːˈneɪzl/, U.S. /priˈneɪz(ə)l/ A. n.
1.
a. Chiefly Palaeontology. Esp. in a fish: a bone or bony plate located anterior to the nasal bone in the snout.
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1858 C. Girard Fishes 81 The upper surface of the head exhibits the following pairs of spines or spiny ridges: an internasal or prenasal; [etc.].
1937 Geol. Mag. 74 510 Between the premaxillaries and the post-nasal is a small bone, the pre-nasal.
2001 Bull. S. Calif. Acad. Sci. (Nexis) 100 59 The maxillary segment contains its anterior articulation with the prenasal, dorsal articulation with the lacrimal, and ventral articulation with the premaxilla.
b. Zoology. In a reptile: a scale on the head immediately in front of the nostril.
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the world > animals > reptiles > [noun] > parts of
atterc1000
fingera1398
spear1608
pecten1713
supraciliary1838
postocular1856
patagium1857
podotheca1864
pretemporal1866
keeled scale1870
postnasal1871
prenasal1886
supracoracoid1897
hedonic gland1901
guanophore1924
chorio-allantois1933
1886 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 23 492 A loreal plate; prenasals joined on the middle line... Psammodynastes.
1981 Copeia iii.550 Nasal divided, postnasal twice as long as prenasal.
2. Linguistics. A prenasalized consonant.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > consonant > [noun] > prenasalized
prenasal1948
1948 R. A. D. Forrest Chinese Lang. v. 93 The Heh-Miao..have rid their language of all compound consonants (except the prenasals).
1988 Afr. Lang. & Culture 1 172 There is automatic (phonetic) nasalisation of vowels following nasals (including prenasals).
1996 Gelpin Soc. Jrnl. 49 28 Throughout Mande regions there is much variation among nasal plus consonant clusters (prenasals).
B. adj.
1. Zoology and Anatomy. Located in front of the nose, the nostrils, or the nasal region.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > nose > [adjective]
nasal?a1425
rhinal1857
prenasal1859
intranasal1886
paranasal1909
1859 R. Owen in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 149 825 No trace of a prenasal bone exists in the skull of the Megatherium.
1875 T. H. Huxley & H. N. Martin Course Elem. Biol. (1883) 170 The lateral angles of this truncated face are produced outwards and forwards into two flattened præ-nasal processes.
1934 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 223 431 Anteriorly, the nasal septum is prolonged into the prenasal process.
2002 Herpetol. Monogr. 16 57/1 Ahort superior prenasal cartilage extends laterally from the alary cartilage.
2. Linguistics. Occurring before a nasal consonant; characterized by prenasalization.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > consonant > [adjective] > before or after > occurring before nasal consonant
prenasal1944
1944 Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics 10 153/1 Nasalization of vowels following a nasal consonant or preceding one in the same syllable is regular in NMSp, and postnasal (and prenasal) vowels go over into Taos as nasal vowel phonemes.
1973 J. M. Anderson Struct. Aspects Lang. Change 137 Modifications in French, revolving around nasalization of prenasal vowels.
1999 Language 75 498 The location of /aw/ is given for several different following environments: prevoiceless (e.g. house, out), prenasal (e.g. down, brown) and word-final (e.g. cow, now).
Derivatives
prenaˈsality n. Linguistics rare the quality or state of being prenasalized.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > consonant > [noun] > prenasalized > quality or state of
prenasality1976
1976 Language 52 332 Another class of consonants involving nasality..argues against any solution to the problem of prenasality in which a single feature has the entire segment as its domain.
2005 K. Nasukawa Unified Approach Nasality & Voicing i. 10 In chapter 2, I shall consider some typological aspects of nasality, voicing and prenasality.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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